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Re: anecdotal evidence
Tom Brosz — (archived)

<12 cases of campus censorship.

another commentary.

Also check out The Foundation for Individual Rights in Education.

Okay, I don't have a chart that details every incident mathematically, but I can find references for many incidents like this given time. This harassment of conservatives is old news. Only after Sept. 11 were liberal speakers actually harassed on campuses, and this was widely noted, if only for its oddity. I can find no record of such incidents before Sept. 11.

The real problem is not just that conservative speakers are shouted down and prevented from speaking on campuses, or that conservative papers are burned in public, but that such things are at the very least tolerated by, and at worst approved by, the faculty and staff of these universities. Cornell's Dean of Students attended the burning of the Cornell Review, and the faculty refused to condemn it.

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